India, May 23 -- The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the alleged dowry death case linked to Twisha Sharma, with the matter scheduled to be heard on May 25 before a bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant.

According to details available on the Supreme Court's case status portal, the matter has been registered as "In Re: Alleged Institutional Bias and Procedural Discrepancies in the Unnatural Death of a Young Girl at Her Matrimonial Home."

The case is slated to come up before a three-judge bench comprising CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M Pancholi.

The apex court's intervention comes amid mounting allegations by Sharma's family over the handling of the investigation into her death. T...